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An entertaining book to finish up the Bloodsong Saga. Plenty of action, magic, fighting etc. It does get a little repetitive - kind of mimicking sections of the other books with the endless ridiculous capturing and torture. You definitely hate the antagonists in this series. There were enough new things thrown in to keep it entertaining. Odin appeared as an old feeble man and as a wolf. Freya makes an appearance. The Witch Huld gains more power from Freya. Odin explains strategy to defeat Hel. (
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This ended up being a really good trilogy. It's more Sword and Sorcery than Fantasy, but that's more my genre anyway. The cast of characters were memorable and the villains were evil. I will say the author is very hard on his characters, as there's many torture scenes (rape scenes as well, although not graphic scenes) and the heroes really suffer at times.
Overall this is an above average S&S series, and I think it's underrated and should be more well known. If you like S&S, especially Norse myth ...more
Overall this is an above average S&S series, and I think it's underrated and should be more well known. If you like S&S, especially Norse myth ...more
Jan 18, 2014
S.E. Lindberg
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An entertaining gateway to Hell, and toward darker fiction
This review covers the trilogy, printed in 1986 but released in an eBook omnibus in 2013 called Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 by C. Dean Andersson
History and Style: The three books combined in Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 were written within ~1.5 yrs (1985-86). C. Dean Andersson (aka Asa Drake) was motivated to make a fun horror series on quick timing. The result was easily digestible horror / fantasy, all rooted in Viking lore. The trilogy includes: 1) ...more
This review covers the trilogy, printed in 1986 but released in an eBook omnibus in 2013 called Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 by C. Dean Andersson
History and Style: The three books combined in Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 were written within ~1.5 yrs (1985-86). C. Dean Andersson (aka Asa Drake) was motivated to make a fun horror series on quick timing. The result was easily digestible horror / fantasy, all rooted in Viking lore. The trilogy includes: 1) ...more
An entertaining gateway to Hell, and toward darker fiction
This review covers the trilogy, printed in 1986 but released in an eBook omnibus in 2013 called Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 by C. Dean Andersson
History and Style: The three books combined in Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 were written within ~1.5 yrs (1985-86). C. Dean Andersson (aka Asa Drake) was motivated to make a fun horror series on quick timing. The result was easily digestible horror / fantasy, all rooted in Viking lore. The trilogy includes: 1) ...more
This review covers the trilogy, printed in 1986 but released in an eBook omnibus in 2013 called Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 by C. Dean Andersson
History and Style: The three books combined in Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 were written within ~1.5 yrs (1985-86). C. Dean Andersson (aka Asa Drake) was motivated to make a fun horror series on quick timing. The result was easily digestible horror / fantasy, all rooted in Viking lore. The trilogy includes: 1) ...more
Good old sword and sorcery. Has a lot of torture by the villian but not in a bondage porn kind of way. Well-paced.
Very fine!
Mar 17, 2021
Ken
marked it as to-read
